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Rangefinder Magazine
Attending WPPI in Las Vegas this February was a fantastic experience. While there I had the opportunity to have a portfolio review with @jacqueline.tobin of @rangefindermag which was a complete honour. After viewing my work she was so positive and decided to featured one of my images from Bangladesh in Rangefinder Online’s Photo of the day!!! To say I am so grateful and completely over the moon is an understatement!
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Spotlight Feature
Photographers Without Borders
This past year has certainly been an adventure!! I am incredibly honoured to be recently spotlighted by Photographers Without Borders- check out the link!! I am so grateful for everyone I had the pleasure to meet and photograph along the way and for the countless people who have helped me in my recovery. I have come along way and am almost healed up for my plane crash this past May. Thank you all for your love and support!!
Capturing the Human Experience
February 26, 2020
By Jacqueline Tobin
Little girl Samira lives in Bangladesh and suffers with cerebral palsy, which had left her completely debilitated and unable to walk or even go to school.
"Due to home therapy over the past two years, she is now able to walk, have an education, a future and is even required to do chores around the home, like cutting vegetables for the family meals," explains photographer Leya Russell, whose work I discovered while reviewing her portfolio at WPPI in Mandalay Bay in Las Vegas this week.
Inspired by the work of people like photojournalist great Steve McCurry, the Calgary, Alberta-based Russell says she is filled with the passion and drive to document the human experience through photography. The happiness on Samira's face as she experiences what is for her the simple joy of cutting vegetables immediately draws the viewer in.
(Photographed using a Canon EOS 5D Mark IV on a 16-35 f/4 L series at 1/250 sec., f/4, 16mm, ISO 4000.)
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